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Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows from 1950 to 1954. With Carl Reiner , he created the comedy sketch The 2000 Year Old Man , and together, they released several comedy albums, starting with 2000 Year Old Man in 1960.
Mel Brooks’ seminal 1967 film The Producers. Photo Credit: Andrew Schwartz. Brooks’ 1967 comedic movie phenomenon, “The Producers” is a perfect example of this phenomenon.
Mel Tolkin (né Shmuel Tolchinsky; August 3, 1913 – November 26, 2007) [1] was an American television comedy writer best known as head writer of the live sketch comedy series Your Show of Shows (NBC, 1950–1954) during the Golden Age of Television. There he presided over a staff that at times included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Danny Simon.
The Producers is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Mel Brooks and a book by Brooks and Thomas Meehan. It is adapted from Brooks's 1967 film of the same name. The story concerns two theatrical producers who scheme to get rich by fraudulently overselling interests in a Broadway musical designed to fail. Complications arise when the show ...
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The Producers is a 1967 American satirical black comedy film. It was written and directed by Mel Brooks, and stars Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, and Kenneth Mars.The film is about a mild-mannered accountant and a con artist theater producer who scheme to get rich by fraudulently overselling interests in a stage musical designed to fail.
Mel Brooks has left his mark in cinema with his long-lasting, six decade plus career -- and now he's literally left his mark in Hollywood, Reuters video reports. The 88-year-old funnyman and ...
Ritz Brothers (Al, Jimmy, and Harry Ritz, 1901–1965, 1904–1985, 1907–1986 respectively), Jewish comedy team [403] Natalie Schafer (1900–1991), actress ( Gilligan's Island ) Lee Strasberg (born Israel Strassberg , 1901–1982), actor, director, and acting teacher in theater and film, who according to author Mel Gussow "revolutionized the ...